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Cynthia McKinney - Theme and Variations

It took only a matter of hours for Cynthia "Rock'em Sock'em" McKinney to turn her alleged assault on a police officer into a hate crime visited on her fragile person by an offensive and ignorant white man.  (See here and here.)

McKinney, reportedly a habitual ID pin non-wearer (read: Capitol security shirker), in the most toned down version of her statement blames the incident (for which she does not apologize, other than to say she regrets "that the incident occurred", which could be read as much as a demand for an apology as an offering of one) on the officer not recognizing her as she bustled by him.

Hmm... if only there were some kind of standardized identifying token that could be affixed to Members' clothing, so guards wouldn't have to immediately recognize any of 535 faces that might happen to blow past them.

One unconfirmed version of McKinney's statement blames it on a recent change in hairstyle (though it goes on to grouse that she had been similarly mistreated by white male guards long before the new coiffe).  Thus, even though guards had apparently posted pictures of McKinney at their checkpoints due to her habitual security eschewing, she and her new do were unable to sashay their way past the copper without arousing suspicion.

In this high-security world, I think this simply means we need to adopt new and innovative methods to keep up with McKinney's ever-changing special security needs.  What would really help would be if we had the technology to visualize the Georgia Slugger in a variety of different prospective hairstyles, to prepare for future fashion trends.

Well, thanks to the magic of MyHeritage.com's Cognitex Celebrity face matching system (and a wee bit of photoshopping), we can do just that!

U.S. Capitol Police Officers, kindly post the following handy Cynthia McKinney Tonsorial Field Guide^TM at all Capitol checkpoints.  Hopefully this will avoid any further race-based harassment and white man-handling of Congresswoman McKinney.

Previously:  Support Security - Deck a Cop!

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Cynthia McKinney - Theme and Variations

It took only a matter of hours for Cynthia "Rock'em Sock'em" McKinney to turn her alleged assault on a police officer into a hate crime visited on her fragile person by an offensive and ignorant white man.  (See here and here.)

McKinney, reportedly a habitual ID pin non-wearer (read: Capitol security shirker), in the most toned down version of her statement blames the incident (for which she does not apologize, other than to say she regrets "that the incident occurred", which could be read as much as a demand for an apology as an offering of one) on the officer not recognizing her as she bustled by him.

Hmm... if only there were some kind of standardized identifying token that could be affixed to Members' clothing, so guards wouldn't have to immediately recognize any of 535 faces that might happen to blow past them.

One unconfirmed version of McKinney's statement blames it on a recent change in hairstyle (though it goes on to grouse that she had been similarly mistreated by white male guards long before the new coiffe).  Thus, even though guards had apparently posted pictures of McKinney at their checkpoints due to her habitual security eschewing, she and her new do were unable to sashay their way past the copper without arousing suspicion.

In this high-security world, I think this simply means we need to adopt new and innovative methods to keep up with McKinney's ever-changing special security needs.  What would really help would be if we had the technology to visualize the Georgia Slugger in a variety of different prospective hairstyles, to prepare for future fashion trends.

Well, thanks to the magic of MyHeritage.com's Cognitex Celebrity face matching system (and a wee bit of photoshopping), we can do just that!

U.S. Capitol Police Officers, kindly post the following handy Cynthia McKinney Tonsorial Field Guide^TM at all Capitol checkpoints.  Hopefully this will avoid any further race-based harassment and white man-handling of Congresswoman McKinney.

Previously:  Support Security - Deck a Cop!